Owen noted that the " Pterodactylus " fossils from the Jurassic of Germany had scales, not feathers, and while " somewhat bird-like " they had conical teeth, suggesting they were predatory.
32.
In 1870 Richard Owen named " Pterodactylus validus " based on holotype BMNH 40653, a thirty centimetres long partial wing finger phalanx from the Purbeck Limestone ( Britain ), identified as that of a pterosaur.
33.
Lawson responded by demonstrating that, while his estimates were inconsistent with those of modern-day birds, they were, in fact, consistent with extrapolations of other pterosaurs such as " Pterodactylus antiquus ".
34.
He noted that the only published trait distinguishing the genus from " Pterodactylus " was an absence of teeth and recommended synonymizing these two genera if " " Nyctosaurus " " teeth were ever found.
35.
In 1980 Peter Galton renamed " Pterodactylus brancai " ( Reck 1931 ), a form from a late Jurassic African formation, into " Dsungaripterus brancai ", but the identification is now commonly rejected.
36.
The original species, " Pterodactylus muensteri ", remained misclassified until a re-evaluation was published by Richard Owen in an 1861 book, in which he renamed it as " Rhamphorhynchus m�nsteri ".
37.
Just as he goes over the falls, the trio swoops in on a commandeered " Harpactognathus " only to be chased by a flock of " Pterodactylus " on the way and saves his life.
38.
Bennett ( 2013 ) compared the holotype specimen of " Aurorazhdarcho primordius " to the specimens of the species " " Pterodactylus " micronyx " ( named by Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer in 1856 ).
39.
In 2003, Kellner defined the clade as a node-based taxon consisting of the last common ancestor of " Pterodactylus ", " Ctenochasma " and " Gallodactylus " and all its descendants.
40.
This piece had been described in 1857 as belonging to the pterosaur " Pterodactylus crassipes " by H . v . Meyer ( v . Meyer 1857 ), and the Teyler Museum displayed it as such for over a century.
